Magic Mike XXL
Curiosity dominated the critical conversation when Academy Award-winning renaissance man Steven Soderbergh teamed up with Channing Tatum, the lantern-jawed heartthrob …
Category Archives: Briefs
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Films centering on teens dealing with terminal illnesses have come a long way in a relatively short time. Current young-adult …
Inside Out
As a parent of two teenage daughters, I’m not sure I was ever all that convinced I needed to get …
Entourage
The gang from HBO’s loveable series is back and finally on the big screen. Movie star Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier), …
The D Train
What does it say about our culture and society that we all seemingly automatically identify with the story of someone …
Ex Machina
Writer-director Alex Garland (writer-producer of 28 Days Later and Sunshine) engineers a film in Ex Machina that speaks to the …
True Story
New York Times Magazine reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill), a rising journalistic star that played poker like a champion because …
While We’re Young
Writer-director Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha) sets out in his latest film, While We’re Young, to skewer the pretensions and First …
Merchants of Doubt
I thoroughly appreciate the conceit that documentary director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) uses to introduce his latest feature — Merchants …
It Follows
Following (pun intended) on the heels of writer-director Jennifer Kent’s mesmerizing horror reinvention The Babadook comes another relative multi-hyphenate newbie …
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